It is a way to ensure that the teaching team's members sign off that a student has completed the course. For example, Teacher B is the instructor for Course2, which has a recommended prerequisite for completing Course1. Teacher B, is the non-editing teacher in Course1 and must check the box that indicates the student has completed the course.

Example 1: Three students have completed the prerequisites for this course

Example 2: Student has completed Lesson, not the quiz

In the Example 1 image, the teacher has not checked off that "Test User1" has finished this course.

Courses can be linked via their course completion criterion.

Manual completions

Depending upon the settings, course completion can require that an activity or the entire course be manually marked as complete. The settings will allow any number of combinations. For example, an activity might require the student to receive a minimum score and have the non-editing teacher manually check complete. Or merely require the student to check an activity or the course as complete.

Manual marking by student examples

A course completion setting may require the student to confirm they have completed the course. Students do this by using the Self completion block

Self completion block

A course completion setting may require a student to manually mark an activity when they believe they have finished it.
On the course homepage, the student may see a box to check as a self completion of the activity. See Example 1 above.

Manual marking by teacher examples

In order for a teacher (or non editing teacher, manager or other role) to mark a course as complete, the appropriate box in the Manual Completion by.. section must be checked in the completion tracking settings.

Example 4: Teacher has marked 2 students as completing the course, evidently one student met the requirements without completing the Lesson or Quiz

Course completion based on specified criteria

It is possible to have a course marked as complete dependent on a combination of specified criteria such as activities completed, grade achieved or length of time spent in the course. This is decided in the overall criteria type aggregation.

Course completion report

Course completion info can be viewed by managers, teachers and non-editing teachers (and any other users with the capability report/completion:view) in Administration> Course administration > Course completion or via a link in the Course completion status block.